Rhetorics of DisplayLawrence J. Prelli Univ of South Carolina Press, 2006 - 443 стор. Groundbreaking case studies mapping the rhetoric inherent in acts of presentation and concealment Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades. Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays--from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos--and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture. |
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An Introduction | 1 |
The Verbal Depiction of the Visual | 12 |
Visual and Verbal Sketches of the Famine | 66 |
A Case Study in Rhetorical Taxis | 90 |
The Iconic Photograph from | 121 |
National Park Landscapes and the Rhetorical Display of Civic Religion | 141 |
Budapests Stalin Monument | 157 |
Cultural Projection and Commemoration | 177 |
Its Showtime Staging Public Demonstrations AlinskyStyle | 255 |
Displays in Liminal Worlds | 273 |
In Memory of the Firefighters | 293 |
Spatial Figurations and the Display of Sexuality | 311 |
Reflections on Mortification | 327 |
Colin Powells Life Story and the Display of a Good Black Persona | 344 |
Televisual Exposures and Concealments | 374 |
Selected Bibliography | 399 |
The Paradise at the End of the Rainbow | 197 |
Death on Display | 204 |
Demonstrations as Rhetorical Display | 227 |
Contributors | 421 |
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